Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)

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From: bruce
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 10:58

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>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Maynard <jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> writes:

> Dammit, people, you're doing Unix. Why not _do_ Unix? Like it or
> not, the people who will flock to YAFAUC (for that's what the Hurd
> is, at this point) are going to be Unix weenies...who, generally,
> like C and hate LISP.

There's a significant number who like lisp a lot.  

There's an even larger number who'll put up with lisp for writing some
things: GNU Emacs has seen to that!
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool

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